All Cheeses Great And Small

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This is the story of Alex James's transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s to gentleman farmer artisan cheese-maker & father of five. 'I was hanging around the pigsty in the way I'd previously hung around at The Groucho Club. I felt wonderfully connected grounded in the real world standing in pig muck' Following fifteen years in Blur Alex James did two wild unexpected things. He fell in love & he bought a farm. Moving into a rambling chaotic farmstead in the beautiful Cotswold countryside he decides the best way to learn about farming is the same way he learned most about music: by jumping in & doing it. As his family settles in he discovers the unexpected joys that country life abounds in: finding the first egg from your very own chicken coming across a bramble bush laden with blackberries roasting home-grown pears on an open fire before stumbling on a new venture
- making cheese. Wonderfully warm witty & perfectly observed this is the story of what to do after you've been the bass player in one of the best bands in the world & a life-affirming tale of just how much fun growing up & settling down can be. 'A joy to read. Prose flows & weaves & curls itself into pleasing rhythms... He can write like a god.' SPECTATOR